Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced it will award $24 million to research projects for improving food safety. 
The grants were awarded to 35 projects at
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Experts Debate Whether Food Safety Funding is Adequate
At the National Food Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., this week, a panel of experts discussed the impact of funding deficits on food programs. Martin Delgado, staff director of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for six
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Food Safety Goals Combine Academic Research, Politics
Barbara Kowalcyk, Ph.D., is a food safety advocate who co-founded the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention after her son, Kevin, died in 2001 from complications of an E. coli O157:H7 infection. Since earning
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Barbara Kowalcyk Joins North Carolina State Faculty
Dr. Barbara Kowalcyk, well known in the food safety community for her advocacy, is joining the North Carolina State faculty as an assistant research professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Kowalcyk currently
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Food Safety Advocate Named 2010 Game Changer
Arianna Huffington announced that she had chosen 100 people in a variety of fields to honor as the Huffington Post’s 2010 Game Changers yesterday. Food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk, founder and director of food safety
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Kowalcyk Awarded LennonOno Grant For Peace
Yoko Ono announced yesterday that the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention’s Barbara Kowalcyk, who was featured in the 2009 documentary Food Inc., will be awarded the LennonOno Grant for Peace at an